- Monday, October 28, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
THE Narendra Modi government saw a major reshuffle on Wednesday (7) when a number of its top ministers stepped down to make way for new faces. In the first-ever rejig in Modi’s second tenure as the prime minister, several frontline ministers quit their posts and they included, apart from the likes of health minister Harsh Vardhan and education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, information technology, communications and law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. Environment minister Prakash Javadekar also resigned. Indian president Ram Nath Kovind accepted the resignation letters of 12 members of the council of ministers on the advice of prime minister Modi.
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The stepping down of Prasad surprised many as he had been in the forefront of the new information technology rules over which the government is at loggerheads with social media giant Twitter. Prasad was in charge of the information technology ministry for five years.
While social media was abuzz with debate whether it was a loss of face for the Indian minister who had been critical of Twitter, some said Prasad was due to be given a key ministry.
